Global Dialogues
The Collective Intelligence Project is launching Global Dialogues - a platform for bringing the world's voices into AI development.
The Challenge
AI is on track to lead to profound and pervasive societal shifts. This year, choices that are consequential for the global public at large—how and when to release models, determining underlying principles for AI behavior, building for cultural pluralism and language diversity—will be made. By default, these decisions fall to a small percentage of those likely to be affected: a recipe for blind spots, overlooked points of failure, and monoculture. The disconnect between high-impact decisions and meaningful public input may grow as AI capabilities accelerate.
Our goal is to change this dynamic. First, by eliciting a broad spectrum of data from ~the globe. (values, stories, perspectives, preferences). Second, by using this knowledge to steer model development and AI policy.
The Project
Global AI Dialogues, built in partnership with Remesh and Prolific, creates the infrastructure for regular global public input into the future of AI.
Our approach utilizes a structured collective dialogue process combining demographic data collection via Prolific, and deliberative discussion and consensus-building through Remesh.ai. Participants engage in 15-60 minute sessions where they deliberate on key issues.
Each Global Dialogue will include:
Longitudinal benchmarks to track AI’s impact and progress
Specific scenarios for input in model responses and policy decision-making
Partner questions from relevant organizations (research labs, AI companies, civil society organizations, governments) who use Global Dialogues in pursuit of their own agendas.
The results will be used to:
Create an open, longitudinal dataset of humanity’s views, values, preferences, and experiences with AI; we already have multiple partners interested in building on this data.
Inform specific decisions being made about AI development.
Enable tech - such as evaluations - to be built on top of it.
Make common priorities obvious and easier to advocate for.
Call for Partnerships
Global Dialogues is a collective intelligence project; as such, it will be most impactful as a coalitional effort.
We invite you to partner with us by doing the following (in order of increasing commitment):
Submit a question to join our rideshare mission: A rideshare mission is when multiple independent payloads are integrated into a single launch. Global Dialogues is intended to be such a mission—add your question to our launches! Ask people what they think of your current pet hypotheses, about the risks you’re most concerned about, or how they expect AI will impact their lives. We will work with you to design an effective question, whether you are interested in scenarios, value-based questions, or experience-based questions. Our core purpose is to ensure AI development is done in service of all; ask any question that will help you reach this goal.
Join the benchmarking coalition: We are working to build a set of longitudinal benchmarks. These will be constructed from questions that we will ask in every GD, enabling us to track a core set of views towards / impacts of accelerating AI.
Work with us to create a topic- or decision-specific Global Dialogue: We are working with partners who are considering specific decisions or are interested in a core set of topics (e.g. human-AI relationships, interspecies communication, Global South conceptions of AI safety, AI and faith) to deploy partner-specific Global Dialogues that can dig in on a specific topic.
Build on the data. The goal of open data is to enable open science: contribute by building tools or extracting insights from the GD data to support your work.
Be a committed audience. CIP ran a series of alignment assemblies in 2023-24 alongside committed audiences like OpenAI, Anthropic, and the UK AISI, where partners committed to taking into account public voice in their decision-making. Join GDs as a committed audience to do the same.
Contact: hi@cip.org